[olug] wiping out a laptop

[George Neill]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 1:38 AM, George Neill <georgen at neillnet.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 1:24 AM, Phil Brutsche <phil at brutsche.us> wrote:
>> DBAN is not up-to-date on hardware support and most likely doesn't
>> support the SATA controller.
>
> I believe you just need to make sure you grab the 2.0.0 instead of the
> 1.0.7 version.
>
> http://downloads.sourceforge.net/dban/dban-beta.2007042900_i386.zip?download
>
> If that doesn't work, you could just do it the old fashion way,
>
> boot from a cd and then,
> dd bs=1048576 if=/dev/random of=/path/to/my/block/dev

must be st. patty's day or something?

dd bs=1048576 if=/dev/zero of=/path/to/my/block/dev

should do the trick.

HTH,
George